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Joel Mowbray

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Areas of Impact:

Israel, Palestinian Politics

Biography:

Joel Mowbray is an award-winning investigative journalist. He is considered a leading expert on the worldwide spread of militant Islam and the increasing threat of homegrown terrorism inside the United States. He first came to prominence with his exposés of the State Department that led to the end of the Visa Express program in Saudi Arabia and the removal of the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Mary Ryan. In 2005, he uncovered the fact that the Bureau of Prisons was allowing Islamic terrorists in federal prison to communicate with the outside world — yet the agency did not have a single full-time Arabic translator to monitor the phone calls and letters of over 100 terrorist prisoners. Most recently, he revealed in the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. taxpayer funded Arab TV network Al-Hurra had become a platform for Islamic terrorists and Holocaust deniers.

Joel Mowbray is an award-winning investigative journalist. He is considered a leading expert on the worldwide spread of militant Islam and the increasing threat of homegrown terrorism inside the United States. He first came to prominence with his exposés of the State Department that led to the end of the Visa Express program in Saudi Arabia and the removal of the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Mary Ryan. In 2005, he uncovered the fact that the Bureau of Prisons was allowing Islamic terrorists in federal prison to communicate with the outside world — yet the agency did not have a single full-time Arabic translator to monitor the phone calls and letters of over 100 terrorist prisoners. Most recently, he revealed in the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. taxpayer funded Arab TV network Al-Hurra had become a platform for Islamic terrorists and Holocaust deniers.

His work has been published in a wide variety of top publications, including the Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, National Review, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Diego Union-Tribune, Investors Business Daily, Philadelphia Inquirer, Arizona Republic, Manchester Union Leader, FrontPage magazine, Jewish World Review, and Washington Times.

Since 2002, Joel has made over 300 appearances on TV news programs, ranging from ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “World News Tonight” to Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” and “Fox & Friends.” He is also a regular on several nationally-syndicated talk radio programs, such as the “G. Gordon Liddy Show” and the “Jim Bohanon Show.”

Joel was named “Journalist of the Year” at the Conservative Political Action Conference and won the Eugene Katz award for excellence in immigration coverage, both in 2003, and he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award — that industry’s Pulitzer Prize — for outstanding investigative journalism. He is also the author of “Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens America’s Security.”

A graduate of the University of Illinois (with a degree in economics) and Georgetown Law School, Joel worked on Capitol Hill for former Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC), where he primarily handled Social Security privatization. Earlier he spent two years working for Pioneer Strategies under now-ABC News reporter Heather Nauert.

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Pyrrhic Palestinian Victory?

15th September 2011 – The Washington Times

Pyrrhic Palestinian Victory?

Joel Mowbray

When the Palestinian Authority (PA) was pushing last month to receive $50 million in direct funding to help alleviate its dire fiscal situation, it received critical support from a seemingly unlikely source: the right-wing government of Israel. more...

Analysis & Commentary

20th November 2012 – Quoted by Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact

A Slow Expansion of Policies Begun Under George W. Bush

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Joel Mowbray

President Barack Obama got Osama Bin Laden -- but has he kept his 2008 promise to "address the problem in our prisons, where the most disaffected and disconnected Americans are being explicitly... more...

4th June 2012 – Powerline

The Friends of Bill Pascrell

Joel Mowbray

Because of redistricting, Rep. Bill Pascrell (D, NJ) is running for re-election this coming Tuesday against a fellow Democratic incumbent Congressman. Pascrell’s slogan: “100% New Jersey Fighter.” more...

18th March 2012 – Quoted by Jamie Weinstein, The Daily Caller

Media Matters for America Linked with Anti-American, Anti-Israel Al-Jazeera Network

Joel Mowbray

Joel Mowbray, an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told TheDC that Rosenberg’s Jewish heritage provides Al-Jazeera cover. “Here’s what Al-Jazeera probably does like — is if they can get less heat for anti-Semitic comments from having them come from a Jew,” said Mowbray. more...

24th February 2012 – Powerline

Dem Congressman Winks…

Joel Mowbray

The growing predilection on the Left of accusing people who are pro-Israel of having dual loyalties has now emerged in a Democratic congressional primary in New Jersey, where two longtime Congressmen are squaring off because of redistricting. more...